Can increasing sophistication in service exports lead to economic growth? Although services were historically produced primarily for domestic consumption, they are gradually becoming more productive, tradable and unbundled. The authors construct an index of "service exports sophistication" to...

The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in...

This study attempts to understand the growth of services & informal sector’s capital formation, by modelling the formal-informal sector value chain in an economy with goods, asset and labour market segmentation. It considers a developing economy with a large informal sector and splits the...

Countries that fully liberalize their telecommunications and financial services sectors may be able to expect economic growth rates up to 1.5 percentage points higher than rates in other countries. Mattoo, Rathindran, and Subramanian explain how the output growth effect from liberalizing the...

The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in...

This study attempts to understand the growth of services & informal sector’s capital formation, by modelling the formal-informal sector value chain in an economy with goods, asset and labour market segmentation. It considers a developing economy with a large informal sector and splits the...

SECTION I: ICT, Digital Divide and Development -- Economics of ICT, Digital Divide and Development – Some Emerging Issues -- ICT and Wellbeing: A Cross Country Analysis -- Digital Divide: How India and China Stack up? -- Evolution of Inter-state disparities in the use of ICT: A study of Indian...